quadratura

From Latin quadrātūra.

• IPA^(key): /kwa.draˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: qua‧dra‧tù‧ra

quadratura f (plural quadrature)

1. squaring

   La quadratura del cerchio ― The squaring of the circle.

2. square, panel
3. (art) quadrature

From quadrō (“make square”) +‎ -tūra, from quadrus (“square, four-sided”), from quattuor (“four”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷa.draːˈtuː.ra/, [kʷäd̪räːˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwa.draˈtu.ra/, [kwäd̪räˈt̪uːrä]

quadrātūra f (genitive quadrātūrae); first declension

1. a squaring, making square, quadrature
2. (by extension) a square

First-declension noun.

• English: quadrature
• German: Quadratur
• French: quadrature
• Italian: quadratura
• Romanian: cvadratură
• Russian: квадратура (kvadratura)
• Spanish: cuadratura

• “quadratura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quadratura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• quadratura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.